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December 19, 2016

After Visiting Israel, a South African Activist No Longer Thinks it’s an Apartheid State

“My views on BDS have changed drastically.”

Tshediso Mangope, a black South African human-rights activist, grew up under apartheid watching his parents being humiliated and believing that the situation for Palestinians in Israel was much the same. But after a recent visit he has come to reject “the analysis that Israel practices apartheid and the demand that Israel should be dismantled and replaced with a single state of Palestine.” He cites three reasons for his change of mind.

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